He's Playing Chess, We're Playing Checkers

ANDERSON TWP. - A robbery suspect's change of clothing - allegedly stolen from a home - didn't fool police, landing a man in jail just two weeks after he got out of prison for the fourth time. Officers arrested Bradley Rice, 38, of Anderson Township, Tuesday as he was getting into a taxi and trying to leave the 1000 block of Rambling Hills Drive, police said. Rice was wearing khaki shorts and a checkered shirt believed to have been taken during a burglary of a home there. That outfit was much different than the blue jeans and tan, long-sleeved shirt that a gunman was wearing when he robbed an employee at Hugh's Barber Shop, 7864 Beechmont Ave., around 9 a.m., said Steve Barnett, spokesman for the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office. A Cincinnati police dog tracked the suspect from the barber shop to the Rambling Hills neighborhood, Barnett said. The dog then did a "reverse track" and led police to the suspect's jeans and tan shirt, which had been ditched in a garbage can at Immaculate Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church, also on Beechmont, Barnett said. Rice initially "provided false information to the arresting deputies and was uncooperative," a news release says, but witnesses identified him as the man who robbed the barber shop. Police have not found the gun used in the robbery. Rice had just finished his latest Ohio prison term on June 26, said JoEllen Smith, state prisons spokeswoman. He spent seven years in prison after being convicted of burglary and theft charges in Clermont County, plus identity theft, tampering with records and two counts of theft from Hamilton County in 2004. Hamilton County court records say that Rice, then living in Milford, went to three Bureau of Motor Vehicles offices in the county and obtained false identification. Then he went to the Beechmont Isuzu in Anderson Township and "test-drove a 2004 Isuzu Rodeo under one of the false identities, never returning the vehicle," a detective's affidavit said. Rice was later picked up in Florida driving the stolen car, records say, then was extradited to Clermont County. The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office asks anyone with information regarding Rice, the robbery and/or location of the firearm to call deputies at 513-825-1500 or Crime Stoppers at 513-352-3040.

First things first, if you have any information regarding Rice, the robbery, or the location of his gun, or any other criminal occurence for that matter, DO NOT call Crime Stoppers. If you've ever seen First 48 you know that people in the hood do not cooperate with police, not even if it means locking up their own mother's killer. You know why? Because they live next door to the people that kill snitches just for sheer principle. Snitches get stitches, everyone should know that by now. Anyways, has anyone ever pulled a combination of timeless classic tricks like this guy before? Rob someone, change clothes and act like your strolling along minding your own business. (Oldest trick in the book) Take a fake I.D. to a dealership, take a test drive, head straight for Panama City. (2nd Oldest trick in the book) And people wonder why crooks still try to pull these tricks? Because cops really are that dumb. They are actually canvasing for information on the location of the gun, try the bottom of the nearest body of water you stupid fucks. Most people are gonna hate on this guy, say that he's an idiot, of course he got caught, blah blah blah. I on the other hand don't drink the Kool-Aid. Little do they know he's gotten away with this shit a million times over, and as far as I know only been caught 3 times. Refreshing to see someone honoring the classics even though society is gonna hammer this guy, too dumb to realize he's 4 steps ahead of everyone else.